Archive timeline
2002
The news published by Hands Off Cain in 2002, month by month, with the countries most present that year.
The year in data
- Executions recorded worldwide
- 535
- Countries where they were recorded
- 27
- News items in the archive
- 3,937
Latest news of 2002
- JUNE 21, 2002Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
The special tribunal to hear the cases of former president...
The special tribunal to hear the cases of former president U Ne Win's three grandsons, and son-in-law U Aye Zaw Win decided that they would be charged with 'high treason' and enticing military officers to be involved
- JUNE 21, 2002TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
The Tajik Supreme Court sentenced members of a criminal...
The Tajik Supreme Court sentenced members of a criminal group to capital punishment and long prison terms for setting up an illegal armed group, terrorism, killings and assassination attempts against government officials
- JUNE 21, 2002GermanyDEATH PENALTY
A young German woman was sentenced to five years in...
A young German woman was sentenced to five years in a Singapore jail after pleading guilty to three drug charges
- JUNE 21, 2002SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
A young German woman was sentenced to five years in...
A young German woman was sentenced to five years in a Singapore jail after pleading guilty to three drug charges
- JUNE 21, 2002FloridaDEATH PENALTY
Broward Circuit Judge Ronald Rothschild sentenced Lucious...
Broward Circuit Judge Ronald Rothschild sentenced Lucious Boyd to death (see also MARCH 12, 2002)
- JUNE 21, 2002PennsylvaniaDEATH PENALTY
Sherman Craver, convicted for the 1993 killing of police...
Sherman Craver, convicted for the 1993 killing of police officer Connie Hawkins and his ex-girlfriend Marie Bates, no longer faces death by lethal injection
- JUNE 21, 2002KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
The lower chamber of the Kazakh parliament gave its...
The lower chamber of the Kazakh parliament gave its approval of amendments to the country's Criminal, Criminal Procedural and Criminal Executive codes
- JUNE 21, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk said that they cannot...
Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk said that they cannot refrain from taking up the abolition of death sentence by saying that this issue was among medium term commitments
- JUNE 21, 2002TürkiyeDEATH PENALTY
Main opposition True Path Party [DYP] leader Tansu...
Main opposition True Path Party [DYP] leader Tansu Ciller has said that parliament should refrain from going into recess in order to allow a comprehensive debate on the commitments made for the EU process, not only the death penalty issue, but the cultura
- JUNE 21, 2002TajikistanDEATH PENALTY
Davlatbi Nazrieva was seven months pregnant with their...
Davlatbi Nazrieva was seven months pregnant with their third child when her husband, Dovud, was sentenced to death in May 2001
- JUNE 21, 2002North KoreaDEATH PENALTY
Tens of thousands of political prisoners face starvation,...
Tens of thousands of political prisoners face starvation, torture and summary execution in prison camps in North Korea, according to the testimony of a prisoner to a US Senate inquiry
- JUNE 20, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
An Iranian court condemned an Afghan national identified...
An Iranian court condemned an Afghan national identified as Mahmoud to death
- JUNE 20, 2002CroatiaDEATH PENALTY
The government initiated the signing of Protocol 13...
The government initiated the signing of Protocol 13 on the abolition of the death penalty in all circumstances, alongside the Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Basic Freedoms
- JUNE 20, 2002New ZealandDEATH PENALTY
The father of murder victim Marcus Doig believes in...
The father of murder victim Marcus Doig believes in an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, but said bringing back the death sentence will not happen
- JUNE 20, 2002RussiaDEATH PENALTY
Russian Ambassador to Tanzania Doku Zavgayev expressed...
Russian Ambassador to Tanzania Doku Zavgayev expressed certainty that two Russian citizens, Ivan Ochirov and Dmitry Kosyakov, sentenced to death for killing in 1997 a Russian teenager, fourteen-year-old Alexei Sotnikov, on Zanzibar (in the composition of
- JUNE 20, 2002TanzaniaDEATH PENALTY
Russian Ambassador to Tanzania Doku Zavgayev expressed...
Russian Ambassador to Tanzania Doku Zavgayev expressed certainty that two Russian citizens, Ivan Ochirov and Dmitry Kosyakov, sentenced to death for killing in 1997 a Russian teenager, fourteen-year-old Alexei Sotnikov, on Zanzibar (in the composition of
- JUNE 20, 2002TexasDEATH PENALTY
Raphael Holiday has been sentenced to death for killing...
Raphael Holiday has been sentenced to death for killing 7-year-old Tierra Lynch, 5-year-old Jasmine DuPaul and 18-month-old Justice Holiday when he burned down their home the night of Sept
- JUNE 20, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
A woman identified only as Ashraf was condemned to...
A woman identified only as Ashraf was condemned to death by stoning in Iran
- JUNE 20, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
A 27-year-old Vietnamese man is to be executed after...
A 27-year-old Vietnamese man is to be executed after he stabbed a close friend to death at a funeral during an argument over what music to play
- JUNE 20, 2002DEATH PENALTY
True Path Party (DYP) leader Tansu Ciller has said...
True Path Party (DYP) leader Tansu Ciller has said that she received Danish and Spanish ambassadors today and "they said that Turkey has to use its time very well today
- JUNE 20, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
From 20 to 25 June 2002, courts in Jiangsu Province...
From 20 to 25 June 2002, courts in Jiangsu Province tried 119 alleged drug dealers, and sentenced seven to death, the Xinhua Daily reported
- JUNE 20, 2002United StatesDEATH PENALTY
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- JUNE 20, 2002ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Six people convicted of homicide and robbery were executed...
Six people convicted of homicide and robbery were executed at Fuyang City in east China's Zhejiang Province
- JUNE 20, 2002DEATH PENALTY
Supreme Court bars executing mentally retarded
June 20, 2002: the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that executions of mentally retarded criminals are "cruel and unusual punishment," violating the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution.
- JUNE 19, 2002IranDEATH PENALTY
Four convicted murderers - Davood Nazari, Akbar Alinejad,...
Four convicted murderers - Davood Nazari, Akbar Alinejad, Saeid Massoumi and Mohammed Lashgari - were hanged inside a prison in the capital city Tehran
- JUNE 19, 2002SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
A new Penal Code was adopted in Montenegro that replaced...
A new Penal Code was adopted in Montenegro that replaced death penalty with 40 years in jail
- JUNE 19, 2002SlovakiaDEATH PENALTY
The government effectively blocked any future attempts...
The government effectively blocked any future attempts to bring back the death penalty in Slovakia by approving a proposal to ratify the protocol No 13 [concerning the abolition of the death penalty] to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights an
- JUNE 19, 2002KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
A Kazakh citizen was sentenced to the death penalty...
A Kazakh citizen was sentenced to the death penalty for double homicide and attempted murder by an Aktyubinsk regional court in western Kazakhstan
- JUNE 19, 2002KazakhstanDEATH PENALTY
Human rights activists are calling for the soonest...
Human rights activists are calling for the soonest introduction of a moratorium on the death penalty and a further abolition of it in Kazakhstan
- JUNE 19, 2002VietnamDEATH PENALTY
Courts in Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam received...
Courts in Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam received 17,986 cases in the first six months of 2002, of which 56